Individual communion-service



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Patented Dec: 28,1897.

(No Model.)

I. K. BEAN. INDIVIDUAL GOMMUNION SERVICE;

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I. K. BEAN. INDIVIDUAL OOMMUNION SERVICE.

No. 596,354. Patented Dec,.28, 1897.

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ISAIAH K. BEAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

INDIVIDUAL COMMUNlON-SERVICE.

, SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,354, dated. December 28, 1897.

A plication filed May 21, 1897. Serial No. 637,585. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ISAIAH K. BEAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a certain Improved Individual Communion-Service, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of an individual communion-service designed to be carried in the hand and in. which the tumblers are so arranged as to be readily removed or replaced.

My invention is clearly shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a view, partly in section and partly in elevation, of a communion-service made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the central standard on the line 2 2, Fig. 1; and Figs. 3 Etlldl are plan views of the detachable tumbler-holder, showing the central standard and the central tube of the tumbler-holder in section.

For purely sanitary reasons it has been thought wise to use individual glasses for partaking of communion-wine. As such glasses are of necessity small in size, some means must be employed for carrying a number of them simulta11eously, and portable trays have been used for this purpose, but they are cumbersome and quite expensive, and to overcome the objections made to these I have devised a form of tumbler holder hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A central standard A projects upwardly from a base B and is provided with an annular shoulder a. A series of detachable and revoluble tumbler-holders D are placed upon this standard and are upheld by the annular shoulder a, the lowermost holder being provided with a central tube 61, resting upon said shoulder, and each of the other tumblerholders having a like central tube which rests upon that of the holder beneath it.

The portion of the central standard between the annular shoulder a and the base B is adapted to be grasped by the hand when it is desired to carry the communion-service from place to place.

Each tumbler-holder has a series of openings d, in which the tumblers 61 may be placed, as many of these openings being formed in each holder as may be desired. In the service shown in the accompanying drawings two sizes of tumbler-holders are shown, Fig. 3 showing one which has twelve openings and is intended to be the top holder of the series, mounted on the central standard, while each of the other holders has apertures for eighteen tumblers.

Each holder has a waved or scalloped edge, forming the projections d by means of which it maybe readilyhandled when removed from the central standard.

The standard A and base 13 are hollow, and inside the lower portion of the standard are arranged the wires 1), forming the hooks 19, upon which the empty tumbler holders may be hung after the glasses in the same have been distributed. The upper ends of the wires 1) are bent outward, so as to engage the inner walls of the stem A and be upheld therein by frictional contact. To prevent the withdrawal of the hooks from the stem, a shoulder or contracted neck 17 is formed on the inside of the standard. The hooks may, however, be drawn down below the base, so as to expose the same for the purpose of hanging the holders upon them.

. In using the service the standard A is held in one hand and the tumblers of the upper holder are first distributed, whereupon said holder is removed, hung upon one of the hooks b,and the tumblers of the second holder distributed, and so on, each holder being free to turn, so that all of its tumblers are readily accessible. As the empty tumblers are collected the holders are restored one by one to their position on the standard.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination of the central standard having a lower portion adapted to be grasped by the hand, and above the same a series of revoluble tumbler-holders, which are freely removable in succession upwardly from the standard, each tumbler-holder being provided with a collar or sleeve fitting the central standard and adapted to space and support the successive holders placed thereon, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the central standard having an annular shoulder on the same and above the same a series of revoluble tumblerholders freely removable upwardly from the standard, said tumbler-holders having censaid hook, as the tumblers are distributed tral tubes, Which, as to the upper holders, and the holders removed from the standard, rest one upon another, the lowermost resting substantially as specified. upon the shoulder of the standard, substan- In testimony whereof I have signed my 15 5 tially as specified. name to this specification inthe presence of 3. The combination of the central hollow two subscribing witnesses. standard and its base, the removable tumbler-holders and a hook located Within the 1 ISAIAH BEAN hollow standard, but capable of being drawn Witnesses: 10 down so as to project below the base, whereby MURRAY 0. BOYER,

the empty tumbler-holders can be hung upon CHAS. H. BANNARD. 

